Sergio Sanchez: Use safe-and-sane revenues to fight illegal fireworks

7:54 PM,
Sep. 24, 2013

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Sergio Sanchez

The Fourth of July is behind us but apparently the "fireworks" are far from over. A columnist from this newspaper has begun a crusade to ban the sale and use of all forms of fireworks in Salinas. Lining up on the opposite side are the many nonprofit organizations that realize how much our community gains from the sale of Safe-and-Sane Fireworks.

Completely absent from the discussion is what the city has been doing - or more precisely, not doing - with the nearly $220,000 that has been paid to the cty over the past five years because of the sale of State-Fire-Marshal-approved fireworks. When I was a ...